Birds and Poets: With Other Papers

Burroughs has coupled some of his sketches of outdoor nature with a few chapters of a more purely literary character. A wonderful compilation of the author's literary essays coupled with his delightful ornithological outdoor sketches 'to follow out these lessons of the earth and air, and behold their application to higher matters. Included is an essay on Walt Whitman, whom Burroughs calls "the strongest poetic pulse that has yet beat in America, or perhaps in modern times."

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